Announcing:
The Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT)
A National Science Foundation Supported Center*
The Center for Health Organizational Transformation (CHOT) brings together innovative health systems from across the nation to learn from collaborative research projects with two leading universities. The Texas A&M HSC School of Rural Public Health and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology are university sites for a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and health system supported Center for Health Organizational Transformation. A number of progressive health systems from Texas and the Southeast are currently participating. Other health systems may soon join.
Texas A&M HSC's expertise in health care management and IT combined with industrial engineering and IT expertise at Texas A&M's and Georgia Tech's Colleges of Engineering are at the core of research work with the health systems. The CHOT addresses implementation of information technology, Six Sigma, Toyota's LEAN, Studer's Hardwiring Excellence, cultural change, quality and safety, chronic disease management, and possibly other evidence-based management and/or major clinical change initiatives. The universities' research faculty and graduate students team with health system professionals to pursue research projects selected each year by the CHOT health system members who serve as health transformation leaders on the CHOT advisory board.
The vision of the CHOT is a transformed American healthcare system that, following the Institute of Medicine model, is safe, effective, efficient, timely, equitable, and patient centered.
The mission of the CHOT is to advance, with its industry partners, transformation in health systems--especially in hospitals, clinics, and physician groups— through cooperative applied research.
The goal of the CHOT is to conduct cooperative research, by teaming university faculty and students with health organization management and clinical professionals, who together seek to advance knowledge and practice of transformational strategies that combine evidence-based management, clinical innovations, and ongoing organizational learning.
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Center Director: Larry Gamm Ph.D. |
Co-Director: Eva Lee, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology & Systems Engineering Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 Phone: 404-894-4962 Email: evakylee@isye.gatech.edu |
*The CHOT is an Industry/University Research Cooperative Research Center
